Verle — boys' name

What the Data Says About Verle

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,758 babies named Verle between 1906 and 1978, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Verle currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1978. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 64 babies received it in a single year. Verle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 521 additional births since 1890.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Verle performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 506 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Verle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Iowa, which accounts for 254 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kansas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Verle in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Verle in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,758 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.